Elliot Rodger, son of Hunger Games assistant director Peter Rodger, allegedly killed six people near the campus of UC Santa Barbara on Saturday night. Based off of the series of videos he published on YouTube and the 140-page manifesto he wrote, anger over his inactive social and sex life was the primary motivation for his killing spree. According to Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday, films like Judd Apatow’s Neighbors may be to blame for Rodger’s frustrations.

In an article titled “In a Final Videotaped Message, A Sad Reflection Of The Sexist Stories We So Often See On Screen,” which was published on Sunday in the Washington Post, Hornaday wrote:

“How many students watch outsized frat-boy fantasies like ‘Neighbors’ and feel, as Rodger did, unjustly shut out of college life that should be full of ‘sex and fun and pleasure’? How many men, raised on a steady diet of Judd Apatow comedies in which the shlubby arrested adolescent always gets the girl, find that those happy endings constantly elude them and conclude, ‘It’s not fair’? Movies may not reflect reality, but they powerfully condition what we desire, expect and feel we deserve from it.”

“If our cinematic grammar is one of violence, sexual conquest, and macho swagger… no one should be surprised when those impulses take luridly literal form in the culture at large.”

Seth Rogen, who co-stars in Neighbors alongside Zac Efron, did not take long to tweet a very angry rebuttal out to Hornaday.

“I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed,” said Rogen. “How dare you imply that me getting girls in movies caused a lunatic to go on a rampage.”

The film’s director and producer then accused Hornaday of using the tragedy to promote her own agenda.

“She uses tragedy to promote herself with idiotic thoughts,” Apatow added to one of Rogen’s tweets. In a separate tweet, he wrote, “I wonder if Anne can prevent herself from going on and becoming part of how these tragic events become profit centers for media. She milked tragedy and it worked for her.”